10 people of my company have just spent a full week filling Adwords accounts with campaigns and keywords for a very important client. We though we knew all Adwords rules since we use Adwords for 2 years and spend more than 100,000$ a month.
So, we've created no more than 20 campaings per account, with no more than 5 ad groups per campaign, with no more than 500 keywords per ad group, which is far below the normal Adwords limits.
But today, when we tried to activate the accounts, we got a message saying that our account was nearly of an unmanageable size. Adwords allowed us to only activate 6 campaings per account!
That's only (6*5*500) 15,000 keywords per account!
Is it a bug or a joke?
Have you received an email from Adwords about this change?
Why did they let us create all these ads?
Do you think it's a way of treating clients?
My thought is that you can activate only a smaller nb of KWs, depending on how many you already have. So activate 15.000 now, and after a few days try activate another 2000-3000 daily.
Probably, for a new account, 15.000 seems like an "unmanageable" size...
Please keep us updated, as I am sure many have encountered the same situation.
10 people of my company have just spent a full week filling Adwords accounts with campaigns and keywords for a very important client. We though we knew all Adwords rules since we use Adwords for 2 years and spend more than 100,000$ a month.
Sorry for the frustration, Affiliatefr. Please be sure to contact your rep, or AdWords support, with details as to why you feel the limit should be increased. By way of example, you may wish to point to other accounts in which you've used large numbers of keywords successfully.
AWA
Affiliatefr, I've just pasted your entire first post into the AdWords Feedback Report - along with the threads title.
Is that a bug or a new way of making me spend less on Adwords?!
I thought the title was especially instructive, in that it speaks to the possibility of advertiser frustration in wanting to spend more, but seemingly being 'prevented' from doing so. I'm sure that'll catch the attention of many folks.
All in all, really excellent feedback. Thanks!
AWA
